About the Authors

Shumaila Furnaz

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

Musa Karim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

mkarim.nicvd@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Research, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

Tariq Ashraf

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

Sajjad Ali

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ziauddin Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan

Izza Shahid

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ziauddin Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan

Sara Ali

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Uzzam Ahmed Khawaja

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan

Muhammad Tanzeel ul Haque

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Muhammad Shariq Usman

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Tariq Jamal Siddiqi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.